We are looking at making our ISP dual-homed. I am currently using a power router with 1 Gig ram. We are looking at using a second one for the other provider and running BGP. I had heard of some issues with BGP on Routeros in the past. Is anyone running BGP in a production environment without problems? Our backhauls will be with Level 3 and Cogent; so I probably will not get into any exotic route filtering. Is there a recommended version? Was planning on running one of the 5.x versions.
Eric
we are running 2.9.51 and 3.30 on level3 and cogent. i have no problems as long as i dont take the entire prefix dump from them both. i take customer routes from cogent to keep the number down since i prefer level3 and have them set as the default gateway anyhow.
Thanks for the info Sam. I was hoping to take full routes from both upstreams and let BGP choose the optimal paths. 1 Gig ram should handle that?
1gb is plenty. please test it and let me know if im safe to upgrade mine to 5.x : ) Ive been thinking ‘if it aint broke dont fix it’ but would like to get the multicpu stuff working better …
Running full feeds on 3.30 and 4.17. Working fine on RB1000/2GB. 1GB should be enough.
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Running 6 BGP Peers, 4 of them with full tables… on a Routermaxx 1200 with 2GIG Ram, memory used is about 700meg … ROS ver 5.5
All is good.
Awesome guys, thanks for the info.